Genotrope Record: Paragon Lake

Formation Date: 2006

Funding Status: Series A

Investors: Highland Capital

Founders or Execs past companies:Founders under 25 started company while students at Babson. VP eng from N2N Commerce

Industry: Consumer Web, custom jewelry

Offering Description: We simplify the design process for jewelers and their customers. We can craft anything from unique engagement rings to a personalized pair of earrings in as little as two weeks.

We are pleased to announce that the old java applet is gone and in it’s place is a beautiful flash graph. The graph contains more information, when you mouseover a company node, you now see the Status, Industry and Comments fields. The companies are arranged in groups according to what stage they are in. Series A, Acquired etc…. SelectClick a node and it will be come the focus Company and display the relevant record. Clicking in the white space allows one to pan the groups which uncover any company previously hidden.

A great place to check it out is from the VC Directory.

Best of all, the graph loads much faster now. You might have to reload or refresh your browser window. Enjoy.

Congratulations to Ganesh, you made John very happy.

Genotrope Record: Awareness

Formation Date: 2005

Funding Status: First Round

Investors: Greylock, North Bridge Venture Partners

Founders or Execs past companies: Microsoft Canada, Sqa, Authentica

Industry: Enterprise Social Networks

Offering Description: At the core of the Awareness solution is an on-demand social media platform that combines the full range of Web 2.0 technologies—blogs, wikis, discussion groups, social networking, podcasts, RSS, tagging, photos, videos, mapping, etc.—with security, control, and content moderation.

Genotrope Record: Playhard

Formation Date: 2008

Funding Status: Series A

Investors: NEA

Founders or Execs past companies: Turbine

Industry: Consumer Web, Online Sports Games

Offering Description: Play Hard Sports is the first sports network in North America focused exclusively on developing, publishing and distributing exceptional sports games and entertainment across the Internet.

Genotrope Record: Affine Systems

Citation URL:

Formation Date: 2007

Funding Status: Series A

Investors: Highland Capital

Founders or Execs past companies: Microsoft, Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

Industry: Online Video, Online Advertising

Offering Description: Our technology analyzes the visual content of videos and images “not just the metadata” to provide superior contextual advertising and brand protection to our customers.

Genotrope Record: Aprigo

Citation URL:

Formation Date: 2007

Funding Status: First Round

Investors: Cedar Fund

Founders or Execs past companies: EMC, NetApp

Industry: Storage, Data Management

Offering Description: aprigo is about data and the people that manage it on a daily business

Genotrope Record: Jackpot Rewards

Company URL: http://www.jackpotrewards.com/

Citation URL:

Formation Date: 2007

Funding Status: Series A

Investors: has raised $16.7 million in Series A financing from a group of individual investors including Lynch, Connors, Chuck Clough

Founders or Execs past companies: WNI Inc., Virtual Iron, Cingular

Industry: Consumer Web

Offering Description: Jackpot Rewards will donate half of its after-tax profits to childrenâ??s charities, and two, that everything about the company, from the structure of the rewards program to the rules of its sweepstakes, is designed to maximize the amount the company is able to give away.

Genotrope Record: Old Road Computing

Citation URL:

Formation Date: 2007

Funding Status: First Round

Investors: IDG Ventures, Highland Capital

Founders or Execs past companies: Virual Iron, Axiowave, Verisign

Industry: Mobile Security

Offering Description: Old Road Computing (our stealth name) is a hot new start-up in Westford, MA which will solve the growing problem of managing mobile devices on enterprise networks. Using technology only recently available on these platforms we will reduce the cost of managing loosely connected devices while simultaneously increasing their security and reliability.

Genotrope Record: Viximo

Company URL: http://www.viximo.com/

Citation URL:

Formation Date: 2007 Q4

Funding Status:

Investors: Sigma Partners, North Bridge

Founders or Execs past companies: Constant Contact, Zoominfo, Pango Networks

Industry: Consumer Web

Offering Description: We’re amassing an army of the world’s most talented graphic designers and animators. If you’ve got the talent, the passion and the black-frame glasses, why don’t you enlighten us.

See our initial post: Stealth Startup

Genotrope Record: Attivio Inc.

Company URL: http://www.attivio.com/

Citation URL: http://masshightech.bizjournals.com/masshightech/stories/2008/02/11/story6.html

Formation Date: 2007

Funding Status: First Round

Investors: Swedish angel investor

Founders or Execs past companies: GetConnected, Fast Search and Transfer

Industry: Enterprise Search, Software

Offering Description: Attivio’s Active Intelligence Engine (AIE) is the first information platform to provide two very basic but critical functions: a universal repository for both data and content, and a real-time alerting system that connects good, relevant answers directly to your corporate processes